Good Morning, ,
Today is Tuesday, November 3
Thank you Hermon !
Thank you Patricia !
Thank you Sig !
Thank you Heather !
Thank you Norma !
If you have trouble getting to sites, that you regularly
go to, like Arcamax or Gocomics, the problem is not at those
sites or at the servers they are on. The problem is that
a bunch of major fiber cable bundles have been cut.
One cut is nenar Kansas City, one is at or near Washington, DC,
and another one I know of is cutting off Newark and all
the data centers connected to the internet backbone there.
There is also a cut in the backbone about 108 km from
Montreal.
How do I know? Did ISIS tell me? No.
I use Traceroute from one of the Webby servers.
You can use the Windows tracert.
Click on START, type cmd and hit ENTER.
In the scary, black DOS style screen, type
tracert webby.com
or any domain you want to check,
for example
traceroute arcamax.com
If you see stars, those are breaks.
If you see 3 stars, that is a cut.
Asia looks even worse!
The Shanghai hub is not accessible.
Tokyo is cut.
Iran and Iraq are out.
India is down to 75%.
Africa is down to 0%,
so is Bulgaria, italy, Poland,Spain,
part of Sweden, and the Milton Keynes part of UK.
Australia is mostly at around 80%, as usual,
but new Zealand is 0%.
South America seems to have recovered except for Colombia.
I have no idea who made all those cuts or who coordinated
the cutting to all happen on the same day.
There is nothing you or I can do about it.
Luckily our servers are not affected.
Have FUN!
DearWebby

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Today's Bonehead Award goes to an
Iowa flasher wearing only trench coat
and fake penis, who was arrested for drunk driving.
Details at Boneheads
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Today, November 3, in
1507 Leonardo DaVinci was commissioned by the husband of Lisa
Gherardini to paint her. The work is known as the Mona Lisa.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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Men who never get carried away should be.
--- Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
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After being with her all evening, the man couldn't take
another minute with his blind date. Earlier, he had
secretly arranged to have a friend call him to the phone
so he would have an excuse to leave if something like
this happened.
When he returned to the table, he lowered his eyes,
put on a grim expression and said,
"I have some bad news. My grandfather just died."
"Thank God," his date replied. "If yours hadn't, mine
would have had to."
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A boss was complaining in a staff meeting the other day
that he wasn't getting any respect. Later that morning he
went to a local sign shop and bought a small sign that
read, "I'm the Boss."
He then taped it to his office door.
Later that day when he returned from lunch, he found
that someone had taped a note to the sign that said,
"Your wife called. She wants her sign back!"
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Thanks to Bonnie for this picture:
Atlantic Ocean in Hampton Beach State Park, NH about
30 miles from my house.Â Nice day & we enjoyed the
walk on the beach couple weeks ago.Â Like to share
with y'all.
Bonnie in Candia, NH
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Ross McDonald,
39,
Iowa City,
Iowa
Iowa flasher wearing only trench coat
and fake penis arrested for drunk driving.
After being arrested for drunk driving, a Halloween reveler
wearing only a trench coat and “a piece of cloth that
looked like a penis” attempted to eat toilet paper in a
bid to foil a Breathalyzer test, Iowa police report.
Cops yesterday pulled over Ross McDonald, 39, after they
spotted him driving the wrong way on an Iowa City street
around 3 AM. According to a criminal complaint, McDonald
was “extremely confused” and could not tell officers
“what bar he was coming from.”
McDonald, who claimed to have consumed two drinks, had
bloodshot eyes, slurred speech, and unsteady balance,
cops noted. He also appeared to be dressed in a “flasher”
costume: “Def was only wearing a trench coat and a piece
of cloth that looked like a penis.”
Upon arrival at the police precinct, McDonald “attempted
to eat toilet paper, thinking it would mess with” the
Breathalyzer. McDonald had initially refused the breath
test, but “changed his mind after attempting to eat the
toilet paper.”
Despite McDonald’s cunning plan, his blood alcohol content
was measured at .165, twice the legal limit.
Since McDonald has prior drunk driving convictions, he was
hit with a felony charge carrying a maximum five-year
prison sentence. Seen in the above mug shot, McDonald was
released from jail yesterday afternoon after posting
$5000 bond.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Hank
Re: Black Screen
Dear Webby,
Still getting black screen when I surf and also stuck cursor.
I tried system restore and it wouldn't work.
Should I install the disc to renew installation?
hank
If you have a restore disk, then that would definitely be
an option.
Some machines have a restore disk in a hidden partition.
Call Support of the manufacturer and ask them to walk you
through a restore.
You have to do that, of course, back up all your data,
spreadsheet files, documents you have written, addresses,
tips and tricks and cheat-sheet files, and your awesome
collection of pussycat pictures.
Also the setup files of all programs and the license numbers
of all the bought ones.
A restore totally wipes out everything you got, and restores
the machine to the same state, that it was when you bought it.
A total back-up like that is of course highly recommended
anyway, even if you are not going to restore just yet.
Before getting quite that drastic, you could try installing
Chrome and then Uninstalling IE and FF.
I would also recommend that you use the DeCrapifier at
https://www.pcdecrapifier.com/ and weed out any program,
that you are not actually using.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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A couple was going out for the evening. They were both
ready to go, nice clothes, hair done, perfume, cologne,
cat put out, etc.
The taxi arrived, and as the couple walked out of their
home, the cat shot back into the house. Not wanting
their often rowdy cat to have free run of the house while
they were out, the husband went back upstairs to chase
the cat out.
Well, the wife did not want anyone to know the house
would be empty for the evening, so she explained to the
taxi driver, "He's just going upstairs to say good-bye to
my mother."
A few minutes later, the husband got into the cab and
said, "Sorry I took so long. The stupid old ninny was
hiding under the bed and I had to poke her with a wet mop
to get her to come out."
The cab driver almost hit a parked car.
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Picasso Light Switch Plate Cover
Turn a plain white light switch cover into a little Picasso
like painting.
Approximate Time: 25 min
Supplies:
1 light switch cover with screws
1 flat screwdriver
sponge to clean surface on switchplate cover
newspaper
permanent markers or acrylic paint
paint brushes
Steps:
Turn light off. Remove light switch cover if you don't
already have one.
Place down newspaper.
Wipe well with sponge and dry.
Mark basic ouline with black permanent marker, including eye,
nose, and mouth.
Paint and color, use your own ideas and colors. Have fun
creating abstract art known as cubism!
Let it dry or speed up drying with a hair dryer.
When completely dry, screw in switchplate. Position the
screws to match eye and lips and paint them.
Let it dry or speed up drying with a hair dryer.
When completely dry, screw in switchplate. Position the
screws to match eye and lips and paint them.
All done! Enjoy your little Picasso like mini painting. :)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn_-ckw4um8
By KIM HOGGAN [8]
You can, of course, also just glue wallpaper or any picture
onto switch and outlet covers. Spray-on contact cement
works best. Spray the switch cover and the back of the
picture, let it dry a bit, and position it on it.
Trim the edges or fold them under it.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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A kindergarten teacher is walking around her classroom
observing her students while they draw. One little girl is
working especially diligently, so the teacher asks what
she is working on.
"I'm drawing God," the child says.
The teacher pauses, then says, "But no one knows what
God looks like."
Without missing a beat or looking up from her drawing,
the girl replies, "They will in a minute."
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2015 World Synchro Champs SP Team Canada

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There are two times when a man doesn't understand a
woman: before marriage
and after marriage.
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Noella's Blunders
In the 1960s I was still very young and working at my very
first job. To supplement my income I cleaned house on
Saturdays for a friend. My friend was quite messy plus he
had a large dog that shed pounds of hair, so it usually
took several hours to clean his apartment. One day I was
about ready to go home when he called to ask if I would
place some chicken in the oven to broil as he'd be home
soon.
Where I grew up we fried chicken, so I knew nothing about
broiling. I asked for instructions and he told me to pull
out the rack, place the chicken on it and turn on the
broiler. It sounded easy enough so I took him at his word
and placed the chicken on the rack and turned on the oven
to “broil.”
About 15-20 minutes later he came home looking forward to
broiled chicken. You're going to have to "picture" this.
What he came home to was chicken laying on the oven rack,
the skin hanging and dripping between the slats!
I had no idea there was a difference in oven racks and
broiler racks. I sure did after I cleaned up the mess!
Noella
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Watching these kinetic
sculptures is mesmerizing!

Today, November 3, in
1507 Leonardo DaVinci was commissioned by the husband of Lisa
Gherardini to paint her. The work is known as the Mona Lisa.
1631 The Reverend John Eliot arrived in the Massachusetts Bay
Colony. He was the first Protestant minister to dedicate himself
to the conversion of Native Americans to Christianity.
1839 The first Opium War between China and Britain erupted.
England insisted on monopoly rights to sell Opium.
1892 The first automatic telephone went into service at LaPorte,
IN. The device was invented by Almon Strowger.
1903 Panama proclaimed its independence from Columbia.
1911 Chevrolet Motor Car Company was founded by Louis Chevrolet
and William C. Durant.
1941 U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Grew warned that the Japanese
may be planning a sudden attack on the U.S.
1952 Frozen bread was offered for sale for the first time in a
supermarket in Chester, NY.
1957 Sputnik II was launched by the Soviet Union. It was the second manmade
satellite to be put into orbit and was the first to put an animal into
space, a dog named Laika. There was not enough cooling and the dog
died from heatstroke.
1973 The U.S. launched the Mariner 10 spacecraft. On March 29, 1974 it
became the first spacecraft to reach the planet Mercury.
1979 Five members of the Communist Workers' Party are shot to death
in broad daylight at an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro, NC.
Eight others were wounded.
1986 The Ash-Shiraa, pro-Syrian Lebanese magazine, first broke the
story of U.S. arms sales to Iran to secure the release of seven
American hostages. The story turned into the Iran-Contra affair.
1987 China told the U.S. that it would halt the sale of arms to Iran.
1991 Israeli and Palestinian representatives held their first-ever
face-to-face talks in Madrid, Spain.
1994 Susan Smith of Union, SC, was arrested for drowning her two
sons. Nine days earlier Smith had claimed that the children had
been abducted by a black carjacker.
1995 U.S. President Clinton dedicated a memorial at Arlington
National Cemetery to the 270 victims of the bombing of Pan Am
Flight 103.
1998 Minnesota elected Jesse "The Body" Ventura, a former pro
wrestler, as its governor.
2002 At Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong, 777 people assembled a
58,435 square foot jigsaw puzzle with 21,600 pieces.
2003 In Kabul, Afghanistan, a post-Taliban draft constitution
was unveiled.
2005 Walt Disney Pictures released "Chicken Little." It was the
first Disney film completely created with computer animation.
2014 In New York City, One World Trade Center opened for
business.
2015 smiled.

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